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Archive for August, 2020

The Crucial Importance of Investigating Subsequent Accidents

Workers’ compensation claims professionals know how important it is to ask about prior injuries in workers’ compensation.  That information can bear directly on causation and will often lead to credits at the time of settlement. But an underrated area of investigation remains subsequent injuries that take place after the date of the workers’ compensation injury but […]

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When Are Injuries That Occur At Work Not Covered By Workers’ Compensation?

There is a fairly widespread belief that any injury that occurs at work must be covered under workers’ compensation.  But that is not true.  There are several categories of injuries that happen at work which simply are not compensable.  Injuries which do not arise out of employment are not covered in workers’ compensation.  Not only […]

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Respondents Can Reopen Cases Too

By on August 7, 2020 in Claims, NJ Workers' Comp with 0 Comments

Employers and workers’ compensation professionals are very familiar with reopener petitions or applications for modification of awards.  A reopener may be filed by the petitioner within two years of the last payment of indemnity benefits or the last authorized treatment date, but not many workers’ compensation professionals realize that employers can also apply for modification […]

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